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Twimight

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Twimight
Original authorTheus Hossmann
DevelopersTheus Hossmann, Paolo Carta, Franck Legendre, Dominik Schatzmann, and others
Initial releaseApril 2, 2013
Stable release
0.9.3 / April 16, 2013; 12 years ago (2013-04-16)
Operating systemAndroid 2.3.3 Gingerbread and up
PlatformAndroid phones
Available inEnglish, German/Swiss German, French, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Serbian, Hebrew
TypeTwitter client
LicenseGNU GPL v3
Websitewww.twimight.com

Twimight was an open source Android client for the social networking site Twitter.[1] The client let users view in real time "tweets" or micro-blogging posts on the Twitter website as well as publish their own.

Added value

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In addition to being a fully functional, ad-free and open-source [2] Twitter client, Twimight allowed communication if the cellular network is unavailable (for example, in case of a natural disaster). Twimight was also equipped with a feature called the "disaster mode",[3][1][4] which users could enable or disable at will. When the disaster mode was enabled and the cellular network was down, Twimight used peer-to-peer communication to let users tweet in any circumstance. Enabling the disaster mode enabled on the phone's Bluetooth transceiver and connected the user to other nearby phones.[5] This created a mobile ad hoc network or MANET, which could be used, for example, to locate missing persons even when the communication infrastructure had failed.

History

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Twimight started out as a project for a Master thesis at ETH Zurich in the spring of 2011.

References

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  1. ^ a b Hossmann, T.; Legendre, F.; Carta, P.; Gunningberg, P.; Rohner, C. (2011). "Twitter in disaster mode: security architecture". Proceedings of the Special Workshop on Internet and Disasters. Tokyo, Japan: ACM. doi:10.1145/2079360.2079367. ISBN 978-1-4503-1044-4.
  2. ^ Theus Hossmann (2013-04-22). "Twimight: The mighty open source Twitter client for Android!". Google Code. Retrieved 2013-04-22.
  3. ^ Hossmann, T.; Legendre, F.; Carta, P.; Gunningberg, P.; Rohner, C. (2011). "Twitter in disaster mode: opportunistic communication and distribution of sensor data in emergencies". Proceedings of the 3rd Extreme Conference on Communication: The Amazon Expedition. Manaus, Brasil: ACM. doi:10.1145/2414393.2414394. ISBN 978-1-4503-1079-6.
  4. ^ "SCAMPI application TWIMIGHT in Google Play". ICT-SCAMPI. 2013-04-18. Archived from the original on 2015-04-19. Retrieved 2013-04-23.
  5. ^ Gostu Venkata Lakshmi Deepthi; Tumati Naga Sai Mahitha; Karamcheti Tirumala Monika; Anusha Sanampudi (2021-04-05). "Detecting Rumors from Blogging Sites using Recurrent Neural Networks". IJERT. doi:10.5281/ZENODO.18629794.
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